Announcements

Hunters Point Shipyard artist Carolyn Crampton just published a second collection of political cartoons: Laugh About It: Cartoons 2 – The Weird Years. "When I shoulda been painting, I was processing my angst by drawing political cartoons. You forgot about some of this stuff, but I drew it all. This book covers two impeachments, Covid, ...

News from Islais Creek Studios artist Flora Davis: I am excited to have been chosen as one of the six finalists in ArtSpan’s 2024 Campaign Collateral Competition (CCC). These artworks with the theme "Staying Gold" will play a vital role in ArtSpan’s citywide promotion of its 50th annual SF Open ...

Shipyard artist Rhonel Roberts announced: Tony Gemignani has given me an opportunity to have my artwork on a billboard in North Beach!! It will be installed on June 1st above Tony's Pizza Napoletana, 1570 Stockton St. at Union St. Future home of Rhonel Roberts' billboard art Rhonel Roberts and Tony ...

Resident hawk in Building 123, early morning March 30 - photo by Kim Smith (click for larger view) Building 123 is now history. Just after noon Wednesday, March 27, 2024, demolition work began on Building 123, the huge skeleton of a building on the north side of Hunters Point Shipyard. ...

Shipyard artists Tesia Blackburn "The Acrylic Goddess" announces: Upcoming Saturday painting classes in Zoom, inspired by Matisse and the desert. I'm participating in an art fair for the first time in many, many years at the Irvine Fine Art Fair on June 1.  Join me virtually at 4:00 p.m. April ...

News from Shipyard artist Richard Bolingbroke: I am currently painting a mural on a 30-ft x 10-ft plywood wall that was recently erected at 628 Shotwell St. (at 20th St.). It was already being tagged and looked ugly. Photo about 4/6/2024 - click for a larger view Since I have ...

Shipyard artists Nina Fabunmi, Ahmad Walker, Rhonel Roberts, and Afatasi the Artist created graphics for the play "Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad" by Bayview playwright A.M. (Ashley) Smiley. Nina designed backdrops for the play, Rhonel and Ahmad created poster art, and Afatasi designed costumes, funded by a 2021 grant ...

News from Shipyard artist Richard Bolingbroke: Richard Bolingbroke (left) and Craig Calderwood I am fortunate to be one of five artists chosen to assist in installing several huge murals at Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO. The project will run from mid-February through mid-May. We will be working three days ...

The magazine cover and Lynn's painting Lynn Rubenzer’s artwork is featured on the current cover of TapeOp Magazine, the creative music recording industry go-to for musician interviews and gear reviews since 1997. The image is cropped from the epic portrait “Subterranea”, a 2012 oil on birch panel (54” x 156”) ...

Shipyard artist Afatasi the Artist's 500-foot mural banner "Motifs and Modalities" was installed on Evans Ave. Nov. 14 along the fence of the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant. Here are some photos of the banner being installed. For more information see our earlier post about this installation. Click image for a ...

Shipyard artist Rhonel Roberts reports that he is in the middle of a long-term public art project: Click for a larger view In July 2023 I was contacted about a project called “Paint the Void” which reached out to me and several other artists to create art on utility boxes ...

Artworks by Islais Creek Studios artist Flora Davis and Hunters Point Shipyard artists Leslie Lowinger and Marc Ellen Hamel are included in the annual benefit auction of the Coalition on Homelessness, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates for Bay Area unhoused individuals and families and supports them with training, employment, ...

News from Shipyard painter and printmaker Marc Ellen Hamel: CELEBRATION SALE! 30% – 75% Off What am I celebrating? It's my 75th birthday and 30th year in my studio at Hunters Point Shipyard so I am celebrating by having a big sale of my older work, and a few new ...

Shipyard artist Nina Fabunmi announced the release of her novel Petals For My Tears. It is available in hardback and Kindle ebook editions on Amazon. Copies will also be available in her studio during Shipyard Open Studios October 21-22, 2023. From the announcement: "In [the] heart of an enchanting African ...

Shipyard artist Nina Fabunmi has created new floor art at the India Basin Shoreline Park near Hunters Point in San Francisco. John Arbuckle, also a Shipyard artist, posted these photos of Nina's new work on the Shipyard Open Studios Facebook page (scroll down to June 18, 2023). Visit India Basin ...

Eric Joyner "Jungle Trek" Stuart Schuffman, author of Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco in zine and book form, published "Robots and Donuts: The Fantastical World of Artist Eric Joyner" by Schatzie Frisch, online on June 22, 2023. Eric Joyner's paintings and other idiosyncratic artworks, many of ...

This site's home page featured the following tribute in the days leading up to and following Juneteenth, June 19, 2023: We honor Black Shipyard and Islais Creek Studios artists on the occasion of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery on June 19, 1865, 24 days after the ...

Shipyard artist Silvia Poloto is the subject of an article in 48 Hills, the website that describes itself as "San Francisco’s largest daily, independent community news and culture site." The article by Mary Corbin, "Not a classic hero’s journey: Silvia Poloto adventures into herself," describes Poloto's life as an immigrant, ...

The painting Ob River (oil on canvas, 68" x 48") by Shipyard artist Irena Kononova is a winner of the Sheridan Prize for Art 2022 in the Immigrant Artists category. The painting is a symbolic interpretation rather than a topographically correct representation of this majestic Siberian waterway. The Sheridan Prize ...

News from Shipyard artist Maeve Croghan: I am excited about a new mural to be painted in my neighborhood, North Beach!  North Beach Neighbors contacted me awhile back regarding my interest in doing this project and I said YES! I am also working with 'TogetherSF’ of the City of San Francisco, ...